Which is better on a 30G HD: 2 or 15 partitions?
I am a gamer and want to know if hard drive access will be better if i split my 30G hd into, say: 5- 6G partitions or 15- 2G partitions or 1- 2G for windows 1- 500M for swap 1- 27. 5G for apps and games I think you see where i am going.
I am a gamer and want to know if hard drive access will be better if i split my 30G hd into, say:
5- 6G partitions
or
15- 2G partitions
or
1- 2G for windows
1- 500M for swap
1- 27.5G for apps and games
I think you see where i am going..anybody done any testiong in this regard.
thanks!
5- 6G partitions
or
15- 2G partitions
or
1- 2G for windows
1- 500M for swap
1- 27.5G for apps and games
I think you see where i am going..anybody done any testiong in this regard.
thanks!
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I have run my hard drives with many partitions and no partitions and i have never noticed a performance increase or decrease when changing between partitioned and nonpartitioned drives. Get RAID if you want to boost your performance. I am amazed at how fast my games load on this old 500 Mhz Dell.
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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2296
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controler
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single peice of software that I actually own
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My System
Dell Demension XPS T500
Triple Boot
Windows 2000 Pro 2195
Windows Whistler Pro 2296
Windows Millennium Final Retail
PIII @ 500 Mhz (with after market heatsink and dual fan)
512 Megs Ram
Guillemot Maxi Gammer Cougar (TNT2 M64 w/ 32 Megs of RAM)
Matrox Millennium PCI (w/ 4 Megs of RAM for second monitor)
3Com Etherlink XL 10/100 Ethernet Card
Abit Hot Rod Pro ATA-100 RAID Controler
2 x 12.6 Gig Maxtor Hard Disks RAID 0 (for system)
1 76.3 Gig Maxtor Hard Disk (for storage)
40X LG CD Rom Drive
100 Mb Iomega Internal Zip Drive
MS Explorer Mouse
MS Natural Keyboard Pro
And not a single peice of software that I actually own
interesting post
I'll wnat to watch this one
I have 2 drives:
Drive 1: 46GB Maxtor UDMA 100
C through L(exluding D)
Drive 2: 15GB IBM UDMA 100
D, M through P
varying sizes...the less than 1GB leftoever partitions make good swap space(P), or CD-backup(L)
I'll wnat to watch this one
I have 2 drives:
Drive 1: 46GB Maxtor UDMA 100
C through L(exluding D)
Drive 2: 15GB IBM UDMA 100
D, M through P
varying sizes...the less than 1GB leftoever partitions make good swap space(P), or CD-backup(L)
